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that has infected rupert murdoch's media empire. heads are rolling at his company news corp and murdoch is doing something he is not used to doing, apologize. he took out gigantic ads in seven british newspapers saying that we are sorry for the phone hacking scandal at "news of the world" the popular tabloid he just shut down and in his own words -- >> well, the scandal is widening to another murdoch paper "the sunday times" and even the fbi is opening up an investigation in the united states. the allegations of hacking the personal phones of public figures in the not so public from murder victims to dead war heroes. >> and there is a firestorm, if you like, that is engulfing parts of the media, parts of the police, and indeed, our political system's ability to respond. >> murdoch's news corp, the parent company of the fox news channel also owns 20th century fox movie studios, the fx network, the "new york post," "the wall street journal," harpercollins publishing and probably your local fox affiliate among many others. the charges
that has infected rupert murdoch's media empire. heads are rolling at his company news corp and murdoch is doing something he is not used to doing, apologize. he took out gigantic ads in seven british newspapers saying that we are sorry for the phone hacking scandal at "news of the world" the popular tabloid he just shut down and in his own words -- >> well, the scandal is widening to another murdoch paper "the sunday times" and even the fbi is opening up an...
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james murdoch. can i thank you for making yourselves available to the committee this afternoon. >> thank you, mr. chairman. we are more than prepared to. >> thank you. perhaps i might start with mr. james murdoch. you made a statement on the 7th of july in which you stated that the paper had made statements to parliament without being in the full possession of the facts and that was wrong. you essentially admitted that parliament had been misled in what we had been told. can you tell us to what extent we were misled and when you became aware of that? >> mr. chairman, thank you very much. i would like to say as well how sorry i am and how sorry we are to particularly the victims of illegal voice mail interceptions and to their families. . it's a matter of great regret of mine, my father's, and everyone at news corporation and these are standards. these actions do not live up to the standards that our company aspires to everywhere around the world and it is our determination to both put things right,
james murdoch. can i thank you for making yourselves available to the committee this afternoon. >> thank you, mr. chairman. we are more than prepared to. >> thank you. perhaps i might start with mr. james murdoch. you made a statement on the 7th of july in which you stated that the paper had made statements to parliament without being in the full possession of the facts and that was wrong. you essentially admitted that parliament had been misled in what we had been told. can you...
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were people as high possibly as rupert murdoch complicit in any of this? would rupert murdoch know about these sorts of practices, people under him know about these sorts of practices? >> yeah, well people under him certainly should have known. when rebekah brooks, his right-hand woman in britain, who gave me my job, she was feature editor and i was looking at the same books we both had. we were spending $4,000 pounds a week on you know, private investigators. doing these kind of practices. it's just extraordinary if she was the department boss who then moved up to to be editor. how could you not notice an expense of over 100,000 a year on this kind of thing and not even ask what it's for. her position is ludicrous. even worse than that, for her to turn round and initially andy could youson turn around and say we didn't know about it, it was a rogue reporter acting on his own and now five reporters have been arrested, i've been invited into scotland yard to be arrested three times and they were still saying, we didn't know. it was just the reporters acting
were people as high possibly as rupert murdoch complicit in any of this? would rupert murdoch know about these sorts of practices, people under him know about these sorts of practices? >> yeah, well people under him certainly should have known. when rebekah brooks, his right-hand woman in britain, who gave me my job, she was feature editor and i was looking at the same books we both had. we were spending $4,000 pounds a week on you know, private investigators. doing these kind of...
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murdoch news organizations is accused of hacking her cell phone. the tabloid then reportedly deleted messages so her mailbox could keep providing new material to print for six grueling months, the mailbox activity gave her family false hope that she was still alive. >> after this statement, i will be meeting the family of milly dowler. none of us can imagine what they have gone through, but i do know this, they, like everyone else in this country, want their politicians, all of us, to bring this ugly chapter to a close and insure that nothing like it can ever happen again. >> dan rivers is in london. dan, tell us of today's meeting. >> reporter: well, it's the last of a series of meetings that the dowler family have had. they have already met the deputy prime minister and today meet the prime minister david cameron and i'm sure outline the same points that the media basically, and particularly the tabloid media, specifically the "news of the world" are completely out of control, according to this family who have been subjected to the most horrendou
murdoch news organizations is accused of hacking her cell phone. the tabloid then reportedly deleted messages so her mailbox could keep providing new material to print for six grueling months, the mailbox activity gave her family false hope that she was still alive. >> after this statement, i will be meeting the family of milly dowler. none of us can imagine what they have gone through, but i do know this, they, like everyone else in this country, want their politicians, all of us, to...
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if murdoch was just one poor old man, would wendi dung stay with him and have his babies? everything between them is about money. >> i used to thing she only loved his money, but her move was fast and instincts. this may be actually true love. she might really love him. >> i admire her courage, this man says. she did it out of her obligation and responsibility as a wife, and she did it very well. rupert murdoch was singing his wife's praises on an interview just last month, a tough woman he called her. the 80-year-old gushing about meeting wend yichi when she wor for star television, and falling in love with a woman half her age, and convincing her to marry him. >> it took me a long time to persuade her. >> they married in 1999, after murdoch divorced his wife of 31 years. they now have two daughters, and wendi's own romantic past raised eyebrows, and sometimes it's talked about the strained relationship between her and his children. >>> hello, againeverybody. let's get you up to speed. >> nose gear touch down. having fired the imagination of a generation, a ship like no o
if murdoch was just one poor old man, would wendi dung stay with him and have his babies? everything between them is about money. >> i used to thing she only loved his money, but her move was fast and instincts. this may be actually true love. she might really love him. >> i admire her courage, this man says. she did it out of her obligation and responsibility as a wife, and she did it very well. rupert murdoch was singing his wife's praises on an interview just last month, a tough...
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eastern republican the media scandal that rah engulfed the murdoch empire. we will have the latest coming up. >>> don't forget if you're walking away from the tv, it doesn't mean you have to stop watching. you can keep streaming on cnn. you can actually grab your ipad and check out cnn.com/video. download the free app and there you go. you can live stream, take us with you anywhere you will. are you anxious to protect your family with life insurance... but afraid you can't afford it?...